Australia – Page 15 – First World War Centenary News Archive

July 25, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Australia honours the Fallen at Fromelles

Australia is holding commemorations in Northern France marking the first major battles fought by its forces on the Western Front a century ago.

July 26, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Three unknown soldiers buried as Australia marks Pozières Centenary

Australia has remembered its first action on the Somme with commemorations on July 23rd marking the Battle of Pozières in the summer of 1916.

October 13, 2016 CN Editorial Team

CWGC launches Somme battlefield guide

Centenary News reports from an event at the Canadian High Commission in London, marking publication of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Somme Battlefield Companion.

October 28, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Centenary of Australian WW1 conscription vote

Australians rejected a move to introduce compulsory military service overseas in a referendum, or plebiscite, held on 28 October 1916.

November 29, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Oxford seminars to explore ‘how we can best commemorate war’

Leading figures from the arts and politics will discuss post-war commemoration and reconciliation at a series of seminars in 2017-18, Oxford University announces.

November 30, 2016 CN Editorial Team

WW1 soldier’s Victoria Cross donated to Australian War Memorial

A Victoria Cross awarded to New Zealand-born soldier Lawrence Carthage Weathers has gone on permanent display at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

January 1, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News countdown to First World War anniversaries in 2017

The penultimate year of the Great War unleashed events that would reshape the world in the 20th century.

February 15, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Passchendaele Remembered’ – 3rd Battle of Ypres Centenary events update

The latest on commemorations coming up in Flanders in 2017 to mark the centenary of a WW1 campaign fought in some of the most atrocious conditions on the Western Front.

March 7, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Three more WW1 Victoria Crosses displayed at the Australian War Memorial

Victoria Cross medals awarded to three Australian soldiers in 1917-18 have been added to the Centenary display in the Australian War Memorial’s Hall of Valour.

March 31, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘For Then, For Now, Forever’ – CWGC marks its 2017 Centenary

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is marking its Centenary year with the launch of new projects aimed at promoting awareness of its founding mission of remembrance in perpetuity.